{"id":332852,"date":"2025-12-24T06:30:14","date_gmt":"2025-12-24T06:30:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/332852\/"},"modified":"2025-12-24T06:30:14","modified_gmt":"2025-12-24T06:30:14","slug":"stargazing-children-new-banksy-unveiled-in-london-in-time-for-christmas","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/332852\/","title":{"rendered":"Stargazing children: New Banksy unveiled in London in time for Christmas"},"content":{"rendered":"

\n Published on
\n 23\/12\/2025 – 9:16 GMT+1\n <\/p>\n

The world\u2019s most famous and elusive street artist Banksy has confirmed that he is responsible for a new mural that appeared in London yesterday.<\/p>\n

Painted above a garage and depicting two stargazing children lying down and in winter gear, the artwork appeared on the side of a building in Bayswater, west London.<\/p>\n

Banksy posted two photos of the artwork on his official Instagram account. <\/p>\n

An identical image also appeared at the foot of the Centre Point tower in Tottenham Court Road, central London, but the graffiti artist did not post that version on his account.<\/p>\n

Banksy\u2019s work is often politically charged, satirical and critical of government policy<\/a>. However, the latest artwork did not seem to carry an overt political message \u2013 although some have suggested that it addresses the topic of child homelessness. <\/p>\n

In September, the artist made headlines with a mural<\/a> showing a judge armed with a gavel looming over an unarmed protester with a blood-splattered placard. That piece, which appeared on an external wall of a Royal Courts of Justice building, came at a time when protesters were being arrested for backing Palestine Action \u2013 an organisation banned by the government as a terrorist group. <\/p>\n

It was swiftly covered up<\/a>, with authorities saying it had to be removed out of consideration of the building’s historical significance. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Published on 23\/12\/2025 – 9:16 GMT+1 The world\u2019s most famous and elusive street artist Banksy has confirmed that…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":332853,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[31],"tags":[6225,6485,6486,7170,7503,3462,1120,96,388,59012,56,54,55],"class_list":["post-332852","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-arts-and-design","tag-arts","tag-arts-and-design","tag-artsanddesign","tag-banksy","tag-children","tag-christmas","tag-design","tag-entertainment","tag-london","tag-street-art","tag-uk","tag-united-kingdom","tag-unitedkingdom"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/332852","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=332852"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/332852\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/332853"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=332852"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=332852"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=332852"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}